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- 1. Believers Refuse Jesus When They Refuse This Kingdom Virtue
- "Hope" is a four-letter word that often confounds. It is meant to encourage, but is certainly a challenge to embrace. Where does hope come from? Can hope be bought or sold? How can just four letters make ...
- Created on 17 October 2019
- 2. It's Time to Stop Wrestling With the Spirit of Hostility
- It's time to stop wrestling with the spirit of hostility. It's time to stop engaging in battle with a force over which you have the victory. There are some things in your life, your church, your community ...
- Created on 30 September 2019
- 3. How the Holy Spirit Can Help You Usher In a Mighty Move of God
- When we think of the foundations of the church, our minds quickly turn to the account of Jesus, His resurrection and His ascension in the four Gospels. But the Acts 2 impartation of the Holy Spirit to ...
- Created on 09 September 2019
- 4. Are Nominal Christians 'Enemies of the Cross?' ...
- ... g on a tree at Calvary? Was it unbelievers? Was it nominal Christians? Brothers, become fellow imitators with me and observe those who walk according to our example. For many are walking in such a way th ...
- Created on 27 December 2018
- 5. God's Answer to Your Deep Disappointment This Christmas
- Do you remember when you were engaged to be married? I remember those days so well and experiencing all of the excitement that was yet to come! Engagement is the singular moment in life when one's all ...
- Created on 29 November 2018
- 6. This Unbeliever Built a Test to Prove Who Was a 'Real Christian'—Meet the Pastor Who Beat It
- As a young man, pastor Chris Hodges was reading a Bible when he was challenged by a man named Mohammed. Mohammed told him, "I can prove to you that you don't believe everything in that book." Hodges took ...
- Created on 10 April 2018
- 7. Why Christians Desperately Need to Stop Chasing an Experience ...
- If we truly find Him, no one will have to tell us to be humble. No one need convince us our old natures are as filthy rags. As we truly find God, the things that are so highly esteemed among men will become ...
- Created on 08 March 2018
- 8. Why Christians Should Never, Ever Be Bored ...
- Some of the best advice I received when we first started planting Grace Hills came from Todd West, who planted Oasis Church in North Little Rock. Todd said, "Don't give people positions. Give them a project. ...
- Created on 17 August 2017
- 9. The True Reason So Many Christian Leaders Don't Live Like a New Creation
- We live in a world that is physically visible, but ruled by the spiritual. The sovereign who is King over all things is a Spirit, and although we can see and function in the physical, everything we see ...
- Created on 15 August 2017
- 10. Pursuing Your Church's Dropout Believers
- What is a dropout believer? Very simply, the dropout believer is the disconnected believer—once actively practicing his Christian faith in a community of believers, but no longer. They have disconnected ...
- Created on 31 March 2017
- 11. Calling a Christmas Truce on Criticism
- Are you tired of criticism in your church or home? Perhaps you could take a page out of history and declare a Christmas truce with your biggest critics before you start a new year. On Christmas 1914, a ...
- Created on 23 December 2016
- 12. What Is a Christian's Role After This Contentious Election? ...
- ... t I see and hear. No matter who wins, we will wake up tomorrow to an even more divided America. Most Bible-believing Christians I know voted for Trump-Pence because of their stand to defend religious libe ...
- Created on 08 November 2016
- 13. 8 Things I Wouldn't Do Again if Planting Another Church
- I have been involved in church planting for most of my ministry career—whether as a planter or as a supporter of planting. I love the process of planting. I love the energy and the enthusiasm a new church ...
- Created on 03 October 2016
- 14. 4 Basic People Needs the Church Must Meet
- ... rting point to a life fulfilled, but it's not the end. There are a lot—I mean a lot—of unfulfilled Christians. And that devastates our witness to the world. After salvation, a fulfilled life is one whe ...
- Created on 09 August 2016
- 15. 4 Values Every Church Should Defend in the Midst of Mass Shootings
- ... There's never been a more appropriate time for us, as Christians, to ask ourselves what Jesus wants His movement, His people, His kingdom to stand for. We will never agree on every socio-political issu ...
- Created on 20 July 2016
- 16. 3 Things Every Pastor Must Do to Protect Religious Freedom
- Religious freedom is a unique privilege. Many in our world today exist in countries without the guarantee of religious freedom. A great number of Chinese Christians worship "underground" outside the blessin ...
- Created on 08 July 2016
- 17. 5 Reasons Why the Large, Single-Site Church Is Dying
- ... reasons: 1. "Cultural Christians" are numerically declining. A cultural Christian is not really a Christian at all. These men and women attended church services in the past because it was the culturall ...
- Created on 29 April 2016
- 18. MT 21 Gospel-Driven Business: Cornerstone Real Estate International
- ... or they're Muslim or Hindu. "I realized that 80 percent to 90 percent of my income is generated not from Christians—but from the toughest cultures I've had to deal with—(people from) Muslim and Hindu cultu ...
- Created on 01 June 2016
- 19. How to Get What You Want From God
- My youngest daughter, Sidney, is always telling us what she'd like for her birthday ... even if her birthday was yesterday. She'll start a sentence, "Next year for my birthday ... " And I'll say, "But ...
- Created on 22 April 2016
- 20. 9 Characteristics of the Modern-Day Remnant Church
- ... n receive from church attendees and or the public. 4. They will produce the most committed Christians and make disciples. It is a known fact that liberal, progressive, compromising churches are shrinkin ...
- Created on 22 January 2016
